Losing Our Souls: The Neglect of the Liberal Arts
In the past century, the liberal arts have come upon hard times. For some, they’re just not that useful for vocational success. For others, they’re associated with a harmful cultural elitism of the West. However, these critiques, and others like them, are neither quite right nor fair. Whatever our cultural or ethnic or socioeconomic background, and whatever our vocational realities or aspirations, the liberal arts are important. Far...
A Supreme Decision?
* On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its decision for Obergefell v. Hodges. It found that same-sex couples have a fundamental right to marriage under the Fourteenth Amendment, and that all states must recognize this right. Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, with Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan joining in. Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito issued four...
Legacy of Scalia
Consider what fans and critics alike have said about Antonin Scalia: “He was a towering figure who will be remembered as one of the most important figures in the history of the Supreme Court and a scholar who deeply influenced our legal culture” (Samuel Alito, Supreme Court Justice).[i] “No one had more influence on the direction of a Supreme Court, maybe other than Chief Justice Marshall, than Justice Scalia had” (Randy Barnett).[ii]...
Scalia: Man of Faith (Part II of II)
In the previous article, we introduced the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, offering an overview of his life, and examining his contribution to the Court. But just as Scalia took his family, the law, and friendship seriously, he also took his faith seriously. He was a man of deep and enduring faith. As Edward Whelan puts it, it “sustained” him.[i] Or as John L. Allen Jr. remarks, his faith was “a defining element of his...
Scalia: Man of the Law (Part I of II)
“Politics aside, we should all die full of years, with 28 grandchildren, in our sleep after quail hunting.”[1] Ross Douthat tweeted that after the late Antonin “Nino” Scalia passed away in February 2016 at seventy-nine. Scalia will be remembered most as a conservative United States Supreme Court Justice, serving the Court for nearly thirty years. But this witty, larger-than-life figure was also a devoted family man, a memorable...
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